The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-03
Charity and Whisky.

munity that Is the most charitable, is
the most likely to go to the good place.
There is some appeal for charity al.
most every day, to assist the poor
either at home or abroad, but the time
is come when there will be an appeal
that will startlc the world. A class of
people that have been looked upon as
among the richest, are liable to be
holding out their hands for aid That
class is the manufacturers and holders
Of millions of barrels of whisky. A
! groan comes from the whisky centers
that is enough to touch the hardest
hearts. The manufacture of whisky
has been ovcrdone, until there is a sup
ply on hand sufficient to last several
years. If no more were made. and
there Is no sale for it. And yet the
distillers keep on making whisky, in
order to feed the slops to oxen. That
is their excuse. They claim thai
the oxen must be fed, and so they
60 on making good corn into poor
whisky, in order to get the slops to fat
ten the oxen. Why the corn in the
original package cannot be fed to the
oxen, or why the oxen cannot be turn
ed out to grass, is not explained. Dis
tillers who are involved up to their
eyes, and who have whisky enough on
hand to make them rich, if they could
sell it, keep on making more,
and getting further in debt. 1t hurts
them to see oxen eating raw corn, and
wasting the whisky that is in it. Moth
Ing would cause distiller to commit
suicide SO quick as to see his corn disap-
pearing, and no whisky coming forth.
Though he fed the corn to oxen, and
rich milk was produced, that would sell
for more than the whisky, he would not
be satisfied. He would mourn the loss
of the whisky. which he knows was con-
cealed about the corn. but which can
never DO utilized unless the corn goes
through the distilery before coming in
contact with the OK. There can be but one
result, in connection with the over pro-
duction of whisky. The distillers, and the
men who have advanced money on an
article for which there is no sale, must
beg for bread. They cannot turn tine
whisky into money. With warehouses
full Of whisky, men will be obliged to
subsist on charity. The free soup
house, and the free lunch counter will
be their boarding place. Nothing can
be done to revive the whisky market.
If every man, woman and child in the
country would drink an extra quart of
whisky day, for year, the market
might be eased up little, but they
won't do it. A few men are trying to
drink up all the whisky in sight. but
it is herculean undertaking, and every
day these enterprises and patriotic men
are being gathered to that long home
where whisky never enters. They are
dying in their tracks. They think they
are relieving the market, but the dis
tillers are making more every day
than the men can drink. There
arc several methods by which
the visible supply Of whisky can
DO reduced. The dstillers and pro-
prietors Of bonded warehouses should
get together and formulate a plan. A
portion Of the whisky might be insur-
cd for large sum, and spontaneously
combust Another portion might be
given to newspapers to offer as premi-
ums for subscribers, gallon for every
new subscriber. Some might be used
to sprinkle streets. Quantities might
be poured into filthy rivers. to purify
them. Then burn about half the dis
tilleries and let the weevil get into the
corn crop for one season and il seems
as though the over production might
be brought down to something near
what the consumption is. 1t is a
question that requires great head to
solve, and it is possible there should
be q new cabinet officer, whose duty
it should be to regulate whisky. 1t
has been supposed that when demo-
cratic administration came in, the
accumulated whisky would be ex-
hausted, but 1t don't seem to
make any difference. Republicans
carried the idea that the over
production Of whisky was owing to
the fact that democrats had been out
Of power SO long that they did not
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